slave like jade

Chapter 64 You will surely die
"Then, what if I lose?" Yu Ruyan asked cautiously.

Mu Lingzhi couldn't help but feel amused seeing her cautious look, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, a light flashed in his deep eyes, and said: "You have been a member of this palace all your life, and What can I give this palace?"

The implication is that if she loses, she loses, so she doesn't need to bet?

Isn't such a deal a bargain!
Or could it be that Mu Lingzhi was too confident and didn't believe that she could beat him?

"Come on, let's start!" Lifting up her sleeves, Yu Ruyan drove the left car steadily, looked at the person opposite with a half-smile and said, "Please, Your Highness!"

Until it's time to light the lamp, the chess game has not ended yet, if it is played with copper coins, it has already passed a hundred games.However, in a duel between masters, how can the winner be determined so quickly?

The two are really sticking together, attacking each other, defending evenly, the situation on the board is actually evenly matched, it is impossible to tell the winner or loser.

However, in such a situation, in Mu Lingzhi's eyes, he had already lost.He is a national player in the Daliang Chess World, and even won the first prize in the Three Worlds Chess Competition. Not to mention losing, he has never even met an opponent of comparable strength. He never expected that he would not be able to win against a little girl, and this The woman is just a maid, wouldn't it shock him?

She has been by his side for a while, and he always thought that she was just an ordinary maidservant of Qi who could only work and didn't know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but he didn't expect her to have such a superb chess skill!

Under the bright lights, Yu Ruyan was so engrossed in staring at the chess board that she didn't even notice that Mu Ling was looking at her deeply, with deep doubts in his eyes.

There always seemed to be surprises and unexpected things about her, so how many secrets about her did he not know?

While distracted, his right elephant was eaten by her horse.He frowned, knowing that he had less chance of winning.

The copper coin stood by and watched with great interest. Before that, he was in a fog, but later he was dazzled.He looked at Mu Lingzhi's furrowed brows, and felt a little relieved for his disastrous defeat just now. You must know that his master, who is a master of chess, has a relaxed expression even in the chess competition. Frown on the chessboard?

It wasn't until Gu Qing'er came to invite her in person that Mu Lingzhi suddenly remembered that he had promised to go back to Ziluo Courtyard to accompany her for dinner, but he had just wanted to ask Yu Ruyan about something when he returned to Yunsong Courtyard. Important things are forgotten.

Thinking of the news he had received, Mu Lingzhi looked at the interested Yu Ruyan opposite with heavy eyes, feeling suspicious of all beings in his heart.But now Gu Qing'er and the others are all here, so I can only ask her later.

When Gu Qing'er saw Yu Ruyan, there was a chill in his eyes for a moment.Thanks to her, I was imprisoned for a whole month, which was a great shame to her who has always been favored, but after she was grounded, she actually snatched His Highness's favor and moved directly into Yunsong Courtyard Living together with His Highness, it's simply abominable!
But after what happened last time, she became much wiser and saw the situation clearly. At this time, what she had to deal with was not Yu Ruyan who was being favored, but An Li, the initiator of the last incident. Rong and An Lan.If they hadn't been using Yu Ruyan to provoke her all the time, how could she have been fooled by them for using Yu Ruyan to attack her.

She obediently stood aside and watched the two play chess. She peeled the grapes with her slender hands and delivered them to Mu Lingzhi herself, saying softly, "Your Highness, try the newly presented jade grapes!"

Mu Lingzhi didn't pick up the grapes in her hand because of his own worries, but Yu Ruyan, who was sitting across from her, gulped several times. Grapes are her favorite fruit, but after playing chess for so long, her stomach was full. Is hungry and thirsty.

Touching her growling belly, she decided to make a quick decision to kill Mu Lingzhi's boss and give money away.

The style of chess changed, she changed her previous cautious approach and concentrated her firepower against the opponent's general, killing Mu Lingzhi in a flash.

Seeing that he was about to win, suddenly the chessboard tilted and all the chess pieces fell to the ground.

Gu Qing'er apologized and panicked: "Oh, my concubine is really clumsy. I accidentally knocked over the chessboard. What should I do?"

Yu Ruyan was dumbfounded, she fought hard all afternoon, her waist was about to break, she was about to win and got the money bag, and she could take the opportunity to go out of the house to find Brother An, but Gu Qing'er got up and hit her and she was gone .

She looked at the scattered chess pieces on the ground with grief and anger but dared not speak out.Gu Qing'er panicked and said: "Your Highness, it's all concubine's bad health, this is really..."

"It's nothing, you're pregnant, how can I blame you for being unable to move around? Forget it, it's getting late, let's go to Ziluo Courtyard for dinner together." Mu Lingzhi took Gu Qing'er's hand and went out like no one else. Walk.Seeing Yu Ruyan still staying there, Gu Qing'er said with guilt on her face: "Miss Xiaoqing, why don't you go to my Ziluo Courtyard to have dinner together, just take it, take it as my apology to the girl."

Who cares about eating your food? If you are capable, you will pay me money!

Yu Ruyan suppressed the dissatisfaction in her heart and said in a muffled voice: "Madam, you are being polite, how dare you ask Madam to apologize for such a trivial matter? I will just eat here, and I dare not disturb Madam and Your Highness's elegant mood!" It is not rare to watch your show Love it!
When she thought that the purse she was about to get was gone, she was so heartbroken that she didn't even have the heart to eat. She turned off the light and went to bed in a sullen mood. She was really tired after playing chess all afternoon. Not coming back, so I fell asleep in peace.

In her sleep, she smelled the ambergris coming from beside her, rolled to the side involuntarily, and touched someone's strong and powerful chest, she thought she was in a dream, and happily pinched it upwards , to avenge him for relying on chess!
The hand goes down on someone's waist, gathers strength and pinches again, and then walks downstream after pinching...

This dream is too refreshing to vent my anger.

As soon as Mu Lingzhi went to bed, he saw her pounce on him, groping his body with both hands, touching and pinching him, laughing while pinching him.What made her so happy that she could laugh in her dreams?

Touched by her lustful.And she obviously hesitated after touching something in her dream, wondering if something would happen if she pinched it?It suddenly occurred to her that this was in a dream, and she could torture him to avenge him for torturing her.

With this thought in his heart, he obediently pushed his hand down, and when he was about to cut off something, his hand was suddenly grabbed. After Mu Lingzhi gritted his teeth and cursed "little fairy", he couldn't hold back any longer, and turned over Pounced on like a wolf...

Until the happy ending, Yu Ruyan was still in her dream and couldn't believe that the person she pinched was real.It was the first time that Mu Lingzhi didn't turn over to sleep after finishing the work, but looked at her non-stop. The inquisitive look in her eyes made her feel a bad premonition, thinking that she had strangled his whole body just now. , she felt hairy in her heart, and said in a trembling voice: "Hall... Your Majesty... I..."

Mu Lingzhi lifted the quilt and pointed to the bruises on his body and said coldly, "You seem very happy to pinch me?"

"No...no, the slave didn't do it on purpose..."

"Who did you learn chess from? Don't tell me you are self-taught!" He interrupted her and asked abruptly.

Yu Ruyan didn't expect his words to change so quickly, she didn't know how to answer him for a while.

She did not have a master to teach her chess skills.Although he had read books and played chess with the Taifu with the other princesses when he was young, the Taifu received his father's order and devoted all his efforts to the eldest princess Yu Mingzhu, and he let everyone else do as he pleases.

At first, she didn't like playing chess very much. Later, when she was imprisoned by her father, she was really bored. After stealing the chess records from her father's library, she studied and figured it out every day, and she became addicted unknowingly. But at that time, she rarely played chess. They played chess against each other, until Xiaodao was rescued and brought into the palace, and he was found to be a chess master, and he would kill chess with him when nothing happened.
"The master I served before likes to play chess. The slave often practiced with her. After playing for a long time... I will get better..."

He is not even an opponent, so he said that he only knows a little bit?When he is a fool?
Also, why did she hide a word from herself when she was sold to that kind of place?
How did she get to know Yue Yu, a wealthy businessman?
This series of questions made it even more difficult for him to see the yes person in front of him clearly. He frowned, and was about to ask her directly, when there was a sudden knock on the door, and the copper money said anxiously outside: "Master, Ziluoyuan sent someone to ask the master to come over, saying that Mrs. Gu accidentally fell into the pool in the courtyard..."

How could he fall into the pool in the middle of the night?Mu Lingzhi's eyes darkened, he got up, put on his coat, and left.Seeing her, Yu Ruyan got dressed and followed him to see what happened.
When Mu Lingzhi and Yu Ruyan rushed to Ziluoyuan, An Lirong and other concubines who had heard the sound also arrived, and everyone rushed to the pool on the side of Ziluoyuan, only to see Gu Qing who had been rescued Er was huddled in Zhuzhu's arms soaked all over, when she saw Mu Lingzhi coming, she threw herself into his arms and cried, "Your Highness, I am afraid!"

Mu Lingzhi hugged her into his arms, glanced at everyone coldly, and said, "What's going on?"

Zhuzhu knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Your Highness, Master has been having nightmares these days and can't sleep peacefully. She said... she said..." At the end of her speech, she glanced hesitantly at the gloomy face. Mu Lingzhi, dare not say the following words.

"Your Highness, I always dream that there are bloody and terrifying things in this yard. They run outside my bedroom every night and scream at the window, sticking out their sharp nails at me, as if... It's too scary, Your Highness, I'm so scared!" Gu Qing'er huddled in Mu Lingzhi's arms and shivered like chaff, beads of sweat rolled out of her pale face, she was indeed affected by the description. Great fright.

Looking at her pale face, Mu Lingzhi frowned. He ordered Tong Qian to invite the doctor from the mansion, and carried Gu Qing'er into the house.

An Lirong led a group of concubines and servants into the house, and everyone looked suspicious. Even if this good-looking person had a nightmare, he wouldn't fall into the pool in the courtyard for no reason.

Gu Qing'er was put on the bed, and the maidservants wanted to change her into clean clothes, but she did not dare to leave Mu Lingzhi for a moment, her pale fingers tightly clutching his lapel and said in fear: "Your Highness... It's really scary."

"Don't be afraid, with Bengong here, no one dares to hurt you!" Mu Lingzhi coaxed her gently, turned around and asked Zhuzhu who was standing by the side: "Qing'er was fine when I left at night, why did she fall to the ground?" Did the pool go?"

Zhuzhu panicked: "Master has been sleeping restlessly these days, and often wakes up in the middle of the night. Tonight she suddenly said that she heard a strange sound in the pool, thinking... that there was something hidden in the pool to do something. Sui called everyone to go to the edge of the pool to have a look. Unexpectedly, as soon as the master came to the edge of the pool, something suddenly jumped up in the water, and the master stumbled and fell into it..."

Everyone was surprised when they heard the words, and someone proposed to go to the pool to have a look in public.Just at this time, Dr. Wu from the palace came in with a medicine box.Mu Lingzhi saw that Gu Qing'er's description was not very good, so he asked Dr. Wu to help her take a good look.Dr. Wu put a silk handkerchief on her wrist, and stared at her through the handkerchief to get her pulse.

This is the second time for Yu Ruyan to enter the Ziluo Courtyard. The last time she returned the agate beads to Gu Qing'er after being beaten. At that time, she only passed by in the courtyard, and today she entered Gu Qing'er's bedroom for the first time. .She didn't bother to look at the exquisite furnishings in the room, but just carefully observed the situation in the room, but after looking for a long time, she found nothing unusual in the room, and she didn't smell any special smell in her nose.

Could it be that Gu Qing'er really just had a nightmare and fell into the pool with confusion?

While Dr. Wu was taking her pulse, Yu Ruyan quietly left the room and came to the pool alone.

Because Ziluoyuan is close to the garden, water from the lake in the garden was introduced into the yard to dig a pool. No fish, let alone anything else.

That being the case, what is Zhu Zhu talking about jumping out of the pool and scaring Gu Qing'er?

At this moment, she suddenly saw something protruding from the bottom groove of the rockery, and the blood in her whole body froze, and she staggered into the room in fright. Zhu Zhu who came out to grab medicine.

Seeing that Zhuzhu was knocked to the ground by herself, she quickly stepped forward to help her up, and while patting the dust on her clothes, she apologized: "I'm sorry, I just..."

In the middle of speaking, she suddenly froze, staring at Zhuzhu in a daze, and Zhuzhu didn't bother her today, and said impatiently: "Forget it, I'm still in a hurry to get the medicine for the master, and I don't have time to argue with you. You Take it easy, this is Ziluoyuan, not Yunsongyuan!" After saying that, he turned around and hurried down the steps.

When Yu Ruyan returned to the room, she heard Mu Lingzhi anxiously asking Dr. Wu: "You said that Qing'er's fetus was unstable? What's the reason? It wasn't always good before."

Dr. Wu is over sixty years old, and his medical skills are well-known in Dongdu. He sighed and said slowly: "Madam's pregnancy was indeed stable before, but recently, she was disturbed by nightmares and couldn't rest well. Pregnancy is a great disadvantage, and the first three months of pregnancy are the most prone to accidents. So..."

"Is there a way to get rid of the nightmare?" The fetus in Gu Qing'er's womb was his first child, Mu Lingzhi couldn't help but get nervous when he heard this.

"Your Highness, don't worry, the servant has already prescribed the madam the medicine to calm the mind and sleep, and after drinking it for two days, she will feel better."

Yu Ruyan was stunned when she heard the words, she glanced at Gu Qing'er with a weak face, and glanced at An Lirong and the others, thinking, I'm afraid Gu Qing'er's nightmare will not be so simple!
When Gu Qing'er's mood stabilized, Mu Lingzhi led the crowd to the pool again. Several torches illuminated the inside and outside of the pool, but the strange thing Zhuzhu said was not seen.

His eyes darkened, and he asked the copper coin to lead people into the water to find it.

After the copper coins were dropped, he took off his shoes and led the man into the water. Seeing her, Yu Ruyan quickly grabbed him, picked up a stick from the yard and stuffed it into his hand, telling him, "Be careful..."

"Don't worry, there is nothing in the water at first glance. I am good at water, so there will be no problems." Tong Qian didn't see the worry in her eyes, took the stick and went into the water.

Watching them go into the water, Yu Ruyan's heart jumped into her throat, and she plucked up the courage to look into the ditch of the rockery, but she didn't see the previous thing again, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that it was her Dazzled wrong.

The five guards took the copper money and searched carefully in the small pool. They walked back and forth in the pool but found nothing. Mu Lingzhi ordered them to go ashore when he saw this.

He turned his head and glanced at Zhuzhu who looked anxious and asked: "Are you sure there is something in the water?"

Zhuzhu heard that Fang's whole body trembled, and said in fear: "Your maidservant saw it absolutely. At that time, Madam was standing on the bank and said that she heard something moving in the water. When Mrs. Dong was frightened, she slipped into the water."

However, the small pool has been carefully inspected by the copper coins. Not to mention the scary things, there is not even a single ordinary fish and shrimp. Either this pair of masters and servants played tricks to create momentum to attract His Highness over.

The copper coin climbed up the bank, and when she passed by Yu Ruyan, she smelled a rotten swamp gas, and suddenly thought of something in her heart, and a flash of light flashed in her mind——

"what--"

Just when everyone thought it was just a farce, the last nursing home suddenly screamed and fell into the pool. Everyone on the bank was shocked. When they looked up, they saw a thick gray and black Alternate snakes wrapped around Nuyuan's thigh, and the pointed snake head bit his lower abdomen.

The sudden change made everyone exclaim in alarm, and Zhuzhu shouted in a panic: "Ah, that's it, kill it!" But Yu Ruyan's whole body was already cold. Be careful what you see in the ditch of the rockery.

Everyone on the shore was stunned, and Mu Lingzhi's reaction was the quickest. He grabbed the copper coin and hit the snake's head with the stick. figure.The nursing home was rescued ashore, but he was foaming at the mouth and his face was black and purple. Dr. Wu at the side immediately cut open the place where he bitten his lower abdomen with a blade, and asked someone to wash it with clean water, but in the end, it took less than half an hour. The nursing home was still dead.

When the nursing home died, everyone was completely shocked!
Dr. Wu said weakly: "If you read correctly, the snake in the water just now is actually a rare black golden stalk. This snake is extremely poisonous. Once bitten, the venom will touch the blood, and people will undoubtedly die!"

Dr. Wu's words were like a basin of cold water pouring on everyone's hearts. Everyone changed their colors when they heard the words, and they couldn't help but stay away from the pool, for fear of accidentally being bitten by a snake in the water.

The body of the nursing home was carried down. Mu Lingzhi's face was livid, and he said coldly, "How could there be such a poison in the inner courtyard of the house?"

Dr. Wu furrowed his brows and was puzzled. This snake usually lives in hot and humid swamps, how could it come to the inner courtyard of the palace?
The noise in the yard had already alarmed Gu Qing'er, who was resting in the inner room, she came out wearing a coat, and after hearing Zhuzhu's report, she hid beside Mu Lingzhi in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "It's dangerous, if The concubine was bitten by the poison just now, I'm afraid I have returned to the west with my poor child now. Your Highness, I can't live in this yard anymore."

As she spoke, she burst into tears: "Your Highness, someone wants our mother and son's lives!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Mu Lingzhi's face changed drastically, but everyone else's expressions also turned serious. Everyone knew the importance of Gu Qing'er's pregnancy. She killed a rare poisonous snake, and even killed a nursing home in public. All the signs showed that everything she said was possible.

Yu Ruyan stood quietly by the side, her eyes gliding over everyone's faces without a trace, her heart was completely transparent, but she didn't know who the show would fall on in the end.

Mu Lingzhi's face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "This matter will definitely be investigated in detail, but the most important thing right now is to find the black gold shoots in the pool, so as to prevent other people from being harmed."

He brought people to the pool again, looked at it calmly, the small pool had returned to its previous clarity, looked at the bottom at a glance, and found no trace of poisonous snakes, he turned his gaze to the rockery in the pool, frowned and said: " Come, move out the rockery."

As soon as she heard that the rockery was going to be moved out, An Lirong suddenly had bad premonitions in her heart. She suddenly realized that what happened in the Violet Courtyard tonight seemed to be coming towards her.

There was a sudden chill all over his body, and he couldn't help but look at Gu Qing'er, but the latter's face only had grievance and anxiety, and there was no trace of conspiracy.

No one dared to go into the water anymore, so they had to put a rope on the rockery, and everyone pulled the rockery out of the water with all their strength.After the rockery came out of the water, it tilted and fell on the open space in the middle of the yard. Several guards surrounded it with sticks and steel forks and beat the stone surface.

Yu Ruyan's heart jumped into her throat. The thing she feared the most in her life was snakes. Thinking of meeting a cobra by the stream in the military camp before, her heart was still trembling, and she couldn't help hiding behind the crowd.

At this moment, under the beating of the guards, a black figure suddenly jumped out from the stone kiln of the rockery, and his figure ran towards the steps as fast as lightning, and the female family members on the steps ran back screaming. , Yu Ruyan ran into the house without even thinking about it, when she was suddenly pushed by someone, she staggered and fell straight down the steps, and at the bottom of the steps, Wu Jinshao was running away crazily under the chase of the guards. , Seeing someone rushing towards him, he opened his sharp teeth and bit them...

(End of this chapter)